Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
SK Hynix (and Samsung) is worse than Micron.
Micron scrapped Crucial, the consumer brand they owned.
SK Hynix and Samsung never sold to consumers to begin with.
SK Hynix and Samsung were the ones who signed deals with OpenAI on the same day for 40% of the entire planet’s DRAM supply that kicked off the DRAM panic buying to begin with!
Micron are absolutely shifting to more profitable HBM production in order to make the most of the AI bubble, and they’re fucking us over in doing so, but IMO what they’re doing pales in comparison to the levels of fuckery that SK/Samsung have done with the shady backroom OpenAI deals. I repeat… 40% of Earth’s RAM production.
It really angers me that those two have so far escaped media wrath while Micron was exclusively taking the hit for an entire shady industry.
Zanz@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Both companies sold directly to consumers. They just sell cheap jdec garbage ram, so people normally don’t buy them. Both companies do make a lot of storage devices and do sell directly to consumers.